More rolling provides me with a character, backstory, skills, assets, and a clear goal. With a couple dozen dice rolls and lots of flipping back and forth between tables, I create a robustly fleshed-out setting complete with history, current events, a star chart of the starting sector, named planets and settlements, and notes about local industry.
Those random tables and envisioning come together right from the moment you start a session zero of Starforged. Everything from yes-and-no questions to aspects of the setting to details about the atmosphere of a planet can be answered with a roll on an Oracle Table. These Oracle Tables exist to answer just about any question you can come up with.
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A full 100 pages of the rulebook are dedicated to random generation tables. It’s when your imagination fails - when you come up against a question that you don’t have an answer for - that Starforged shines. You envision the point of interest you find when your ship unexpectedly drops out of warp. You envision what gaining the upper hand in a fight looks like. You envision how a new piece of information changes your current objective. It’s a way to ask you, the player, to imagine an answer instead of relying on someone else to provide it. Envisioning is an important word in Starforged - it shows up in bold throughout the book as a gameplay prompt. Your job as player and storyteller is to make connections between concepts, adapt to new complications, and envision the story your character is participating in. If you do play with a GM, they’re there to guide your story you’re not there to experience theirs. Hell, Starforged doesn’t even need a GM - it’s optimized for solo or small group play. It’s the collaborative-est of collaborative storytelling. Like other Powered by the Apocalypse and PbtA-inspired games, the core gameplay aspect of Starforged is an invitation to imagine together, and the mechanics are only there to aid the narrative. Starforged builds on Ironsworn’s mechanics, but you don’t need to know Ironsworn to play. But why did humans have to flee? And what did they find when they reached the Forge? Did they create a new star-spanning civilization, or is the Forge a lawless frontier of scattered settlements? Just by asking those questions, you’re already playing Ironsworn: Starforged, the sci-fi follow-up to Ironsworn’s (low) fantasy setting. The Forge is a strange and wild new home full of mysterious energies and new challenges. Aboard their experimental Exodus ships, the last vestiges of the human race limp to a cluster of stars known as the Forge. In the distant future, humanity is forced to abandon the Milky Way.
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